TEEN TIME AS VIEWED FROM BEYOND

The Colder Children

They know that they are cool and that the rest of the world stinks. That’s called “existentialism” by the little girl in the duffle coat

By Sally Kempton22 min

6465

TEEN TIME AMONG THE TRADE

In the Time It Takes You To Read These Lines the American Teenager Will Have Spent $2,378.22

Thus, for the American merchant, there’s no such thing as a bad boy

By Grace Hechinger,Fred M. Hechinger21 min

5051

TEEN TIME AS VIEWED FROM BEYOND

And This, Dear God, Is What They Read

"Doris Day and Elizabeth Taylor fight over Elvis, while Dick Chamberlain says decent girls are dull. Jackie to be fifth Beatle, and how does Ringo feel? Exclusive!” Exclusive is right—of fact, that is. But these are the great (un)truths that teen-agers buy and believe

By Dixie Dean Harris19 min

6869

TEEN TIME AS VIEWED FROM BEYOND

The Boy Scouts (The Boy Scouts???)

Right. The Boy Scouts. They’ve changed, too

By Christopher Davis18 min

8081

THE IMAGE MAKERS

The Image Polished

It was like with Fabian—this kid had something. What?

By Peter Bart18 min

7879

FICTION

Brazzaville Teenager

A warm and wholesome story of a boy and his dad, Little Sigmund and the Flipouts, and some other things hard to describe

By Bruce Jay Friedman11 min

3637

TEEN TIME AS VIEWED FROM BEYOND

Hair!

They iron it, tint it, tip it: it takes a lot of time to keep it looking simple

By Alice Glaser14 min

8283

THE IMAGE MAKERS

The Image in the Marketplace

These kids have something too—like an agent who’ll sell it

By Elaine Dundy17 min

5455

PARENT-CUM-TEEN TIME

Familial Colloquies

Sons and daughters who have had the good taste to pick parents they like